Blog7-Week9 Experience of video podcast

Since it was the first time for me to make own movie, I had a lot of difficulties with editting. One of my troubles was that I didn't have Mac. So I had to go to computer Lab, or borrow Mac from my friends to use iMovie. However, once I started editing the movie, I devoted myself and enjoyed editing. I adopted a sound effect and music to give obsevers a mood. Also, I put the poems on the screen to allow obsevers to check what I said. Next trouble was that I had to wait an hour to upload my movie on youtube. I hope a programmer develops the youtube upload system. Although I spent a lot of time to edit and upload the video, I'm satisfied with my work even if my movie beyonds 5 min.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WYPH9lSIpE  ← This is my video podcast link:) Check it out!!

My target observer is anyone who are interested in Japanese and Jpanese culture. In my movie, they can learn how to write Haiku (Japanese poem), and listen to one of famous poems. Since I spoke English insted of Japanese, it was easy for beginner to understand the contents. When I show my friend (Japanese friend) this movie, she enjoyed and liked it. She commented that using a finger was good idea because observers never get tired of listening, and watching. She also added that I could include teenagers as my target because I didn't use difficult words. I was glad to hear her comment, and wanted to hear more comments from other observers. I'm looking forward to seeing the comments on youtube. I'm sure that their
comment encourages me to make a better video podcast in the future.

Blog6-Week8 QA experience

Although there are some advantages of QA, personally I don't like QA much because after (or while) I played QA I got eye strain. I didn't know why, but compared to liveMocha or twitter activities, I felt easily eyes' fatigue. As a result, I couldn't concentrate on learning for even an hour because of my eye tiredness. I think that it is not just for me but others. Especially, it may be harm for young learners to play QA (kind of game) for a long time because their eye are easily influenced by enviroment.

Also, some learners just play for a plesure not for language learning, so teacher has to go the round and pay attention to student's activity.  In my opinion, learners should use QA as their outside activity because no matter how learners use well, they can't improve their language skills if they don't know basic knowledge. That's why grammar teaching or other teaching should be focused on  in class.

Since I'm not gamer (who loves playing game), I'm not interested in QA much. However, for gamer QA is very interesting, and it even motivetes them. If teacher understands individual preferences, she can give learners a lot of options to study language. Some prefers QA, but the others don't prefer it. This situation always exsisted in class.